X-Operative

5 GBP

Published by X
Marks the Bökship, 2014. £5Paperback, 112 pp

The title of this
book X-Operative is taken from an essay by Ksenia
Cheinman, who uses the term to describe common places where the cultural
space becomes creative, productive, commercial, domestic, and educational all
at once. This idea was used as the blueprint for an exhibition about X Marks
the Bökship at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge in 2013. This book documents the
X-Operative exhibition and extends the ideas broadly covering the multi
operations of independent bookshop X Marks the Bökship: reading & writing,
production, performance, distribution and exchange. Contributions include: Adam
Burton’s text Some Problems
of Distribution for Independent Publishers and Independent Booksellers, new writing by Bökship writer’s-in-residence
Rory Macbeth and Rebecca Jagoe, World Brain by Lucy
Woodhouse and works by Sophie Demay, Beatriz Olabarrieta, Keef Winter and Jess
Wiesner.